shell_gpt VS aider

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ShellGPT

The code was something like this (off topic, but if you're looking for a great solution for daily use, take a look at ShellGPT):

Otherwise it might be more or less the same as using https://github.com/TheR1D/shell_gpt ?

I use a cli tool 100x/day for misc things; can hit openai or a local llm.

https://github.com/TheR1D/shell_gpt

Has nice shell integration.

I was wondering if anyone else is using a minimal terminal LLM. What I mean is a small cli application that lets you use stdin/stdout/etc to just pipe data to/from an llm (provider agnostically).

For me this method has become my favorite way of using of LLMs (when I only need text IO) - but I suspect that I've (once again) just reinvented the wheel here. Previously I used https://github.com/TheR1D/shell_gpt, but I ran into a few reliability and usability issues with it.

The way this works for me, is that I just launch a terminal which automatically starts a new LLM session, and I can use the CLI to load and manipulate previously saved sessions.

Maybe in the future, what I see is that once could launch a generic LLM daemon on one's computer to just expose an API for any other tool to use, like an equivalent of an LSP, but for LLM instead of coding editors.

end rant, any ideas? Feedback? :)

Besides aider and ollama, I think shell_gpt https://github.com/TheR1D/shell_gpt is great for quick chats / lookups. Being able to quickly cat files to repl sessions saves a lot of time.

I need to integrate distil whisper large v3, aider, and shell_gpt to tidy up a lot of my disjointed LLM use. As someone else mentioned, the commits created by aider allow me to "skip" some intermediate steps that would be required when working on coding tasks with other frameworks.

https://github.com/TheR1D/shell_gpt?tab=readme-ov-file#shell...

I would like to stay in the terminal, and am using https://github.com/TheR1D/shell_gpt, my format is simply to send GPT a file to discuss:

See Usage for more: https://github.com/FSilveiraa/solveig/blob/main/docs/usage.m...

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FEATURES

AI Terminal Assistant - Automate task planning, file management, code analysis and system management using natural language in your terminal.

Safe by Design - Granular controls with pattern-based permissions. File operations prioritized, and shell commands can be disabled.

Plugin Architecture - Extend capabilities through drop-in plugins. Add SQL queries, web scraping or block dangerous commands with 100 lines of Python.

Modern CLI - Clear interface with task planning and listing, file content previews, diff editing, API usage tracking, code linting, waiting animations and rich tree displays for informed user decisions.

Provider Independence - Works with any OpenAI-compatible API, including local models.

tl;dr: similar idea to Claude Code (https://claude.com/product/claude-code) or Aider (https://aider.chat/), focusing on providing explicit user consent, granular configuration, drop-in plugins and the ability to integrate any model, backend or API.

See the Features for more: https://github.com/FSilveiraa/solveig/blob/main/docs/about.m...

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TYPICAL TASKS

- "Find and list all the duplicate files inside ~/Documents/"

You can also switch between models with aider https://aider.chat/

I have a MBP with 128GB.

Here's the pull request I made to Aider for using local models:

https://github.com/Aider-AI/aider/issues/4526

10. Aider: Code with AI in Your Terminal

No MCP support (https://github.com/Aider-AI/aider/pull/3937) makes it less useful than other tools (opencode.ai, Claude Code and etc)

It does sometimes feel that all of these systems are slowly rediscovering that the OG, Aider (https://github.com/Aider-AI/aider), had a near perfect architecture for pair programming with LLMs from the start.

I just started using aider, recommend it: https://aider.chat/

It indexes files in your repo, but you can control which specific files to include when prompting and keep it very limited/controlled.

GitHub - Aider-AI/aider